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" The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT. "

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" It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. "

" Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what's called in the press 'Obama's Army.' But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That's critical. "

" Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions. "

" The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced. "

" There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. "

" John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale. "

" The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. "

" Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. "

" American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898. "

" In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America. "

" Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. "

" The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. "

" If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them. "

" A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it. "

" I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science. "

" From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support. "

" The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. "

" There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs. "

" With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. "

" If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. "

" A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order. "

" Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. "

" In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors. "

" The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge. "

" The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival. "

" The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. "

" The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. "

" Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. "

" When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.' "

" People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. "